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Prologue: A Civil War Story
Introduction: Lincoln’s Caped Crusaders
Part I: The Hartford Boys
1. The Chaotic Roots of American Politics
2. Enter The Republicans
3. Hartford’s Beadle Boys
4. The Beadle Boys Muster for Clay
5. The First March
6. The First Youth Organizers
7. Lincoln Meets The Wide Awakes
8. A Connecticut Craze
9. Chalker Makes His Move
10. Sperry Gets Serious
11. A Fracas in Waterbury
12. Boosters Become Brokers
13. Pressure Comes From Above
14. Sidney Gladwin Comes Home
15. The Riot in New Haven
16. State House Election Day
PART II: The Battle Beyond Connecticut
17. Wide Awakes vs Gangs of New York
18. Growing Pains
19. Wherever the Fight is Hottest
20. The Fire Upstate
21. New York Songsters
22. Far Off in Iowa
23. The Populist Aristocrat
24. James Garfield the Self-Made Man
25. The Hartford Ball
26. Late Campaign Rallies
27. The Texas Threat
28. Camp Jackson Massacre in Missouri
29. A Family in Twain
30. A Victory Lap in New York
31. Gladwin and Lambert Enlist
32. The End of the Wide Awakes

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